Children's hospitals, general · Michigan

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph

St. Joseph, MI · ~1,938 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Children's hospitals, general workplace, earning a grade D.

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph: 10.2 TCR = 136% of Children's hospitals, general BLS 7.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph safety composite

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

4/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph: 6.8 → 21.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.8× in 2020

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph's TCR rose 14.2 from 6.8 in 2016 to 21.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · St. Joseph, MI ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 10.2 · 136% of ind

  • DART 18.4 DART
  • RANK #246/262
  • PHOTO Anderson County Hosp…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 509 inj
  • SIZE ~1,938 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anderson County Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph averages 10.2 TCR (136% of the Children's hospitals, general BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=21 · BLS 7.5

Where Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph falls in its industry

6,862 Children's hospitals, general establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #246 safest of 262 Children's hospitals, general employers in Michigan.

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph (1,938 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph
Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph (1,938 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Lakeland Medical Center St. Joseph has more employees than the Children's hospitals, general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 21.0 18.4 82 249 1
2019 10.5 4.0 113 0 0
2018 5.6 1.8 98 0 0
2017 7.2 2.3 113 0 0
2016 6.8 2.4 103 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MI · St. Joseph

6,862 Children's hospitals, general employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 30 employers in St. Joseph, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Anderson County Hospital 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center SHMC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Melrose Wakefiled Hospital 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacred Heart Hospital 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Barton Malow Holdings, LLC 1,959 FTE
STATE-SIZE One Ford Place 1,904 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1855-MIDET153 1,903 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Health Main Hospital 1,976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colson Saint Joseph 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Robert Bosch LLC 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cliffside Company d.b.a Caretel Inns of Lakeland 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospice at Home 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Freight Lines, Inc. - Tyler 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Piggly Wiggly 196 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rohn Industries 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sedano's Supermarket #39 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Joseph's Hospital 1,938 FTE
NAT-SIZE doTERRA International, LLC. 1,938 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington State Ferries 1,939 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.